![]() ![]() The gloomy shadows of manmade violence haunt many of the most effective paintings in this exhibition, somber and sometimes wry pictures that offer up another side of Ferlinghetti’s vision - ashen tones and bleak narratives marking a creative departure from his poetry’s polychromatic moods.īorn in 1919 in Bronxville, New York, the well-educated Ferlinghetti was raised in a milieu that was equal parts privilege and privation. But Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Love & War, an exhibition here at Rena Bransten Gallery mitigates the relative obscurity of the writer’s visual art by positioning it at the intersection between poetry and protest, that juncture most associated with Ferlinghetti.įerlinghetti’s gravitational pull toward a cultural viewpoint that blends art and politics started from the existential terror unleashed by the bloodbaths of the Second World War. ![]()
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